Another intermodal traffic record for U.S. railroads

Another intermodal traffic record for U.S. railroads    U.S. railroads carried a record intermodal volume of 238,961 trailers or containers in the week ended Nov. 20, the latest Association of American Railroads statistics show. The figure was 3,085 intermodal units higher than in the week ended Oct. 30, when the previous intermodal record was set.
   The Association of American Railroads said that the cumulative total for U.S. railroads during the first 46 weeks of 2004 amounted to 9.8 million trailers or containers, an increase of 10 percent on the year-earlier period.
   U.S. railroads also recorded a weekly record of 33.2 billion ton-miles of rail freight for the week ended Nov. 20.
   Carload freight, which does not include the intermodal data, totaled 354,122 cars, up 2.5 percent from the comparable week last year, and was the second highest weekly total this year.