The Southern Railway discontinued the "Carolina Special" on December 5, 1968, which had by then dwindled to a coach-only remnant. "This left only a remnant of the "Asheville Special" (discontinued August 8, 1975) as the last regularly scheduled passenger service for Asheville. Most of the line between Charleston and Aiken, South Carolina, has been lifted as there was little freight traffic generated by the historic but redundant route to justify its continued operation.