After ten years of full operation, and the breakaway and reconsolidation of the LC&CRR, the South Carolina Rail Road was still obliged by its original charter to connect with Camden. Despite hard economic times, and heavy debt inherited from the failed LC&CRR project, this branch was completed in 1848, fixing the route map for the next 50 years. During the great prosperity and statewide railroad expansion of the 1850s, the SCRR enjoyed a doubling of its receipts but was obliged to focus on paying off debt, upgrading its physical plant, and resolving inefficiencies in its route. After the War, financial losses due to operations of Federal military forces were estimated at $1,438,142. Losses due to the downfall of the Confederacy were $3,803,917 including defaulted CSA bonds, uncollected transport charges, and 111 emancipated slaves. Competition crept in thanks to previous failure to expand. In 1867 the SCRR fought an unsuccessful "railroad war" during construction of the competing Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad by interfering in the courts, claiming an exclusive charter for any railroad connecting Charleston, Columbia, Camden, or Augusta. A grade crossing in Columbia was protested in court, then blocked by a parked train, then torn up physically, and finally threatened by a steamed up locomotive ready to move forward to block at any moment. All of these obstructions were quickly dismissed or prohibited.