Heres an easy solution to your problem.
Step 1: Ride the rails hobo-style to California.
Step 2: Steal $900 worth of potato chips. Remember, its California. You wont be arrested.
Step 3: With your loot in hand, ride the rails back to New York.
Here I am, on the way home with $900 worth of California truffles.
lol
What a coincidence.
For the first time in decades I watched a “little house on the prairie” episode and it was the one where 3 kids and charles ride the railroad hobo style so the dying kid can see the ocean.
But I just want the potato chips :)