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I am at the moment reading a book that has several pages about rail travel in the USA at that time. It is a library book by Christian Wolmar “The Iron Road” ISBN 978-1-4093-4799-6; don’t know if your Melbourne is in the UK or Australia, but the latter does have a nationwide exchange system. At the turn of the 20th Century there were five transcontinental routes across the USA. The map in the book isn’t clear but there is a route from San Francisco – Salt Lake City – Denver – Chicago – Pittsburgh – Philadelphia then presumably a train change for New York. I think this is the Union Pacific line. Some of your questions can be answered: Charles Dickens was dismayed by the lack of class differentiation “There are no first and second class carriages as with us….”
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