Great railway : Elizabeth man takes to the air to locate abandoned right-of-way (The Journal-Standard)

It is a love for history that prompted Michael Dittmar to take to the skies in search of the Chicago Great Western Railway abandoned right-of-way. Now a history teacher at River Ridge High School in Elizabeth, Dittmar developed a keen interest in history while he was a student at Elizabeth High School. It was his teacher, Gerald Speer, who he looked up to as a local historian.

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