SALEM - Two out-of-state train riders were are in Columbiana County jail Tuesday charged with trespassing after illegally riding on a westbound Norfolk Southern train.

Salem police arrested Carly A. Bennett, 18, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and Kelsie D. Picher, of Manitoub, Mich., charging each with two counts of criminal trespassing for illegally riding on a train and disrupting the operation of a train.

They are being held on $2,000 cash bond ($1,000 on each count) pending arraignment in Columbiana County Municipal court.

Police said they were advised by Norfolk Southern at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday that two people had been spotted on a piggy-back car, Lt. Don Beeson said. The train stopped at the Allen Road crossing and Beeson said the two, a male and a female, were located on the 60th car of the train that had about 70 cars. "They were hiding, sitting in the front of a piggy-back car. There's a space," Beeson said, holding his hands apart to demonstrate. "We (with the conductor) walked down and you could see them."

He said both were taken into custody without incident and said they hopped

the freighter in New Jersey and had "been traveling the country" on train.

The two had been on the train for two days and had not eaten.

Police and a dispatcher provided them with pizza and chips and whatever else they could round up at the station.

The two had backpacks and one had a skateboard.

"There was nothing illegal," Beeson said, noting they were happy to get some food and were "pretty grubby."

Beeson said they were trying to get back to Michigan, where Picher resided. He said when a train is stopped, the railroad has to alert and divert other traffic on the line.

Perry Township police also responded and secured the perimeter from the overpass in Salem to Allen Road while other officers searched the length of the train.