It would operate as a subsidiary of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, which it connected with at the north end in Boykins.
[2] When they discontinued service on the branch, the town of Murfreesboro took action to prevent the abandonment.
But in the late evening of May 7, 1897, the company removed the branch's tracks in the dark of the night.
The Roanoke and Tar River Railroad was fully merged into the Seaboard Air Line in 1911.
In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation.