EcoWatch: Ed Ruszels workday is a soundtrack of whirling, banging, screechingthe percussion of wood being cut, sanded and finished. Hes the facility manager for the family business, Ruszel Woodworks. But one sound each day roars above the cacophony of the woodshop: the blast of the train horn as cars cough down the Union Pacific rail line that runs just a few feet from the front of his shop in an industrial park in Benicia, California.
Most days the train cargo is beer, cars, steel, propane or petroleum...