The Virginia Creeper Trail is a 34 mile recreational trail connecting Whitetop Station to Abingdon, Virginia. In the early 1900s, the trail was the site of a railroad line used by the Virginia-Carolina Railroad Company to transport timber from Mount Rogers to North Carolina. The steam engine that lugged heavy loads slowly and steadily through the mountains was nicknamed the “Virginia Creeper”. The last train ran in 1977 and the tracks were removed in order to undertake a “rail-to-trail” project. The converted railroad line is now a wildly popular biking trail, although it is technically a multi-use trail that can …