2006 National Recreation Trails Photo Contest/2TunnelHill-IL.jpg
"Lone Rider" on the Tunnel Hill State Trail near Vienna
in southern Illinois, managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resouces.
The right-of-way is a former railroad founded by Civil War General Ambrose
Burnside. In 1872 Burnside and others began the Vincennes & Cairo Railroad,
which connected Vincennes, Indiana and Cariro, Illinois.(photo by Diane
McCleland).
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