CHICAGO | Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Transit police and Fourth District Chicago police officers arrested four south suburban men Monday night on charges related to them driving their four-wheel drive vehicles onto elevated railroad tracks belonging to the NICTD South Shore Line near 130th Street and Torrence Avenue, according to a news release from NICTD.

Charged with criminal trespass are Michael Drenth, 24, and Jesse Dong, 23, both of Orland Park, and Timothy Slikus, 23, of Oak Forest, and Daniel Grande, 23, of Tinley Park, according to the release.

Transit police were investigating a report of suspicious activity near the Ford Assembly Plant in Chicago's Hegewisch neighborhood when NICTD officer Jesssie Watts Jr. saw a vehicle on an elevated section of railroad tracks that carry high-speed South Shore Line passenger trains, according to the release.

The vehicle fled the tracks when officers on foot approached.

Officers determined the three four-wheel drive trucks were "mudding in a wooded wetland area and driving up and down the sides of the railroad embankment, according to the release. Officers waited for the men to leave the area and arrested them when their mud-soaked vehicles got to Torrence.

The men told police they thought they were in Hammond and did not realize the embankment was for trains until a passenger train passed them, according to the release. All four have a court date of Dec. 3 in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago.