"Beautiful day. Yeah, it's a good day." Steve McMinn has come to this lovely waterfront park with his wife, Julie Trimingham. The park is sandwiched between the shoreline and the railroad tracks that run right through town. Trimingham's family goes back generations in Bellingham, and now for the first time she finds herself stepping up as a community activist, opposing a proposed coal-export terminal up the coast at the industrial site of Cherry Point. She's concerned about impacts on the immediate environment of the terminal, but she's also worried about the inevitable increase in train traffic through town. "There would be a train on the tracks at least once every hour, day and night. So there's the noise, there's the pollution - the diesel particulate matter - and emergency vehicle response time. We're not sure how the intensified rail usage will affect businesses who are on the wrong side of the tracks or close to the tracks." And it just seems like a wrong fit for this progressive college town on sparkling Puget Sound. "It's almost inconceivable that there would be a plan afoot to change this part of the world into a coal export facility. It seems ironic or cruel, or misguided at best."