The trail runs along the former bed of a part of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, a transportation unit led during its early years by Civil War General Ambrose Burnside.
Cairo | Vincennes | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | Pennsylvania Railroad | Union Pacific Railroad | Underground Railroad | New York Central Railroad | Cairo University | American University in Cairo | Alaska Railroad | Vincennes, Indiana | Erie Railroad | Central Pacific Railroad | Illinois Central Railroad | First Transcontinental Railroad | Lehigh Valley Railroad | Bois de Vincennes | Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad | Grand Funk Railroad | Cairo, Illinois | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | Wabash Railroad | Railroad switch | Missouri Pacific Railroad | Boston and Albany Railroad | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | Metro-North Railroad | Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | Albany and Susquehanna Railroad |