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At Burlington Northern Santa Fe, 'tis clearly the intermodal season.

With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, BNSF intermodal facilities were extremely busy in October. The Class I achieved a new monthly system record for the number of containers and trailers lifted — 646,581 units, an 8.4 percent increase compared with the previous monthly lift record of 596,433 set in October 2000, according to a Nov. 11 posting on BNSF Today, the railroad's online news service for employees.

Eleven of BNSF's 35 intermodal facilities also set all-time monthly lift records last month:

• Harvard: 10,077 lifts, a 17.5 percent increase compared with the previous record monthly record of 8,576;

• Alliance: 47,971, a 12.8 percent increase compared with the previous record (42,526);

• San Bernardino: 50,162, a 10.6 percent increase compared with the previous record (45,350);

• Argentine: 26,716, a 10.1 percent increase compared with the previous record (24,275);

• Los Angeles: 114,872 lifts, an 8.4 percent increase compared with the previous record (105,959);

• Memphis: 18,742, a 4.1 percent increase compared with the previous record (18,008);

• Stockton: 20,252, a 2.6 percent increase compared with the previous record (19,734);

• Oakland: 10,118, a 2.0 percent increase compared with the previous record (9,919);

• St. Louis: 8,002, a 0.6 percent increase compared with the previous record (7,955);

• Cicero: 42,398, a 0.3 percent increase compared with the previous record (42,280); and

• St. Paul: 17,558, a 0.03 percent increase compared with the previous record (17,552).