The eastern border point of the former Chinese Eastern Railway, at Suifenhe/Grodekovo, sees significant use as well, with over 8 million tons of freight crossing the border there in 2007, and regular cross-border passenger service.
The Nuevo Laredo/Laredo border crossing is the largest truck freight crossing in North America while Ciudad Hidalgo is located on a major freight corridor between Mexico and Guatemala.
By 1998, the most recent year for which full statistics are available, more than 160 million metric tons of freight crossed the Alps, two-thirds of it by truck.
"If what's alleged is that this is a smuggling operation," Mr. Livingston asked, "who's going to come forward?" Along the Texas-Mexico border, where the Union Pacific freight crossed from Matamoros to Brownsville, Tex., Border Patrol officials doubted that the immigrants had boarded in Mexico.
In 2011, almost 19 million people and about 17.7 million tonnes of freight crossed the Channel using the Tunnel, it said.
The latest oil shock looms much larger for Dean England, chief operating officer of CR England, a family-owned trucking company based in Salt Lake City that hauls freight cross-country in 2,600 tractor-trailers.
The crash happened when a Great Western train from south Wales to Paddington station, west London, collided with a freight train crossing its tracks.
Among the pictures of the departing South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun walking across the border to clasp hands with North Korea's Kim Jong-il and freight trains crossing between the countries for the first time in 56 years, there was just enough room on a few of the front pages for reports of a technology deal struck between the two leaders.
Two major freight railroads cross the state.
Photo: A freight train crossed a dried river in the high desert of China's Qinghai Province yesterday.
Thus, every time an Outbound service is passing, pedestrian traffic through the freight track is also prohibited and inversely, every time a freight train is expected, the crossing of the Outbound rail track is prohibited.
