There's A New Generation Of Young People Hopping America's Trains [PHOTOS]

Mike Brodie began train-hopping in 2002 at the age of 17 when he left his house unannounced with a few belongings. "Two weeks later I was gone — this was it, I was riding my very first freight train." From 2004 to 2009 Brodie rode more than 50,000 miles through 46 states, documenting who and what he …