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Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:56:36 -0500
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Pete:

Steam engine days, people working the "head-end" had grips made out of metal.  
I still have two of my fathers.  That way, they wouldn't burn up or
catch on fire.  I still remember him going to work with his metal grip, shovel,
and water can (for drinking).  O. W. Wells
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com 
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [CBQ] Grip


  You guys are all to young to remember when everybody called their "suitcase" 
a grip.  It's reallly not a reailroad term, although no self respecting 
railroad man in days gone by would refer to his "traveling case" as a 
"suitcase"...it was a GRIP..  

  In one of the Truman biographies..I think it was David McCulough's TRUMAN ;it 
was reported that, on the morning after his arrival in Independence, MO (by 
train), the president was out for his morning "consitutionsional. and was, or 
course, besiged by reporters...One of them asked him this question..."" Mr. 
President, what was the first thing you did when you got home from 
Washington..."In characteristice Truman speak, the president replied..."  I 
took the GRIPS up to the attic"...In another bio the biographer, reporting this 
same incident quoted Mr. T as saying...I took the "suitcases" up to the 
attic"...I know what he really said and it wasn't "suitcases"....

  My grandfather was cut from the same material as Mr. Truman  (born just three 
years before HST) and he always referred to his "GRIP".....as did all railroad 
men and most other.

  Pete-----Original Message-----
  From: teb2771@earthlink.net <teb2771@earthlink.net>
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Tue, 22 May 2007 2:26 pm
  Subject: Re: [CBQ] Grip

  We have chuckled at this term's demise recently, too. Most railroaders used 
to 
  arry a grip as their travel luggage - a squat, wide bag with handle at top 
that 
  sometimes) has a metal piece along each opening at the top and half-way down 
  he ends so that it opens to the same size opening as its floor. Old photos 
show 
  ngineers, conductors, etc., leaving their trains with such a bag. Bet you 
can't 
  ven find one at a luggage shop today. Tom Burg 

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  ubject: Re: [CBQ] Grip

  Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  ain Entry: 1grip
  ronunciation: ‚grip
  unction: transitive verb 
  nflected Form: gripped ; grip£ping 
  tymology: Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan; akin to Old 
  nglish grˆpan
  ate: before 12th century
  1 : to seize or hold firmly
  : to hold the interest of strongly ²a story that grips the reader³
  €“grip£per noun 
  €“grip£ping£ly \‚gri-piÅ -l‡\ adverb 
  Main Entry: 2grip
  unction: noun 
  ate: before 12th century
  1 a : a strong or tenacious grasp b : strength in gripping c : manner or 
  tyle of gripping
  a : a firm tenacious hold typically giving control, mastery, or 
  nderstanding b : mental grasp
  : a part or device for gripping
  : a part by which something is grasped; especially : handle
  : suitcase
  : stagehand 
  Also listed is key grip and pistol grip
  Hope this helps?
  ohn
  In a message dated 5/22/2007 5:31:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
  bq682@grics.net writes:
  Just hired on the BNSF yesterday as a conductor trainee. I've heard the term 
  grip" many times in the past and understand what it means. I realize that 
  t is a term that has been used for decades. Was this originally a CB&Q term? 
  ow did it come about? Anyone know?
  R.W. Brown, Jr.
  alesburg, IL
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