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Stein,"Wabash" means to overfill a track with cars or a Wabash RR stunt...This came about years ago when Rabbis use to bless(by washing?) kosher meat and this had to be done daily..So,once bless,the Wabash would shove these reefers onto a interchange track and foul both switches.These then became the problem of the connecting road..This was done so the Wabash didn't have to pay for another blessing.

Must be a pretty local term. Like ISL :-)

Btw - meat does not become Kosher by being blessed by a Rabbi (paid or otherwise) in transit. Meat from appropriate animals basically becomes kosher due to the way the animal is slaughtered - a quick cut across the throat with a sharp knife, and then bleeding the animal to remove the blood.

Smile,
Stein

I thought everybody knew what Wabash meant.
Here's one difination.

WABASH—To hit cars going into adjacent tracks. (See cornered) Also refers to the officially frowned-upon practice of slowing up for a stop signal at a crossing with another railroad instead of stopping. The engineer would look up and down to make sure everything is safe, then start up again, having saved several minutes by not stopping entirely. Wabash may also mean a heavy fire in the locomotive firebox.
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