The Virginia–Carolina Railway was an interstate railroad in southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina.
The line charted a complicated course through the mountains of the area, crossing the Blue Ridge not far from Mount Rogers.
[1] The Norfolk and Western Railway funded construction to Damascus, which was completed in 1900.
[1] The Hassinger Lumber Company, whose mill was seven miles away in Konnarock, Virginia, built the Virginia-Carolina and Southern Railway to make this connection.
The V-C was extended through the Blue Ridge Mountains to White Top in 1912 and to its terminus by 1920.