In 1910, the Madison County Railroad acquired the assets of the Laurel River Logging Company, and construction resumed on that logging line from Stackhouse to Runion. The railroad also began consolidating the many disjointed logging lines within Madison County, with the intent of gathering the large amount of poplar and pine.

The line eventually stretched from Stackhouse, paralleling the Southern Railway tracks to Runion, then it turned northward and eventually extended to Roaring Fork in Tennessee. By 1925, most activity on the railroad had ceased. In the late 1930s, the remaining locomotive and rails were cut up for scrap metal and reportedly sold to Japan.

Towns on Route (in NC):

Stackhouse

NC/TN State Line