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Re: [CBQ] Grip - Where to get 'em?

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
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Here is one possiblity. Working for 3M in St. Paul we bought 'grips' similar to 
what has been described. These were rectangular bags that had two flap 
overlapping closures with a handle on one. This allowed the top of bag to have 
same dimensions as the bottom. These were made of leather.
   
  The company is Pedro Luggage in St. Paul,MN.and they manufacture their own 
bags. Phone is 651-224-9491. I can't find a web site for them.  

Don Forsling <DonForsling@msn.com> wrote:
          Well, at 70, I'm not to young to remember grips.--the kind the 
railroad guys used, not the suitcases misnamed grips. My question is this: 
Where can I buy a grip (traditional style) NEW? Any ideas?

Regards,

Don Forsling
Ames, IA
(A Guy who lost his grip years and years ago!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: owwells<mailto:owwells@socket.net> 
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Grip

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
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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com<mailto:Jpslhedgpeth%40aol.com> 
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.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-----
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<teb2771@earthlink.net<mailto:teb2771%40earthlink.net>>
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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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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 grÃ?â? pan
ate: before 12th century
1: to seize or hold firmly
: to hold the interest of strongly �²a story that grips the reader�³
â?¬â??gripÃ?£per noun 
â?¬â??gripÃ?£pingÃ?£ly \ââ?¬Å¡gri-piÃ? -lââ?¬Â¡\ 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<mailto:bq682%40grics.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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