How to size up Bush.

BYLINE: BY PETER TIRSCHWELL

With the Bush administration set to depart within the year, it's easy enough to point to private-sector developments in the international intermodal system during the administration's two terms in office. These, of course, would include the shift to East Coast routing by importers precipitated by the West Coast labor disruption and congestion, the emergence of major Midwest rail industrial parks and the restoration of quality intermodal rail service. Not to be ignored were the mostly unheralded efforts to manage soaring container volumes moving through a delicate system of ports, roads and rail that could back up at a moment's notice into a cross-country traffic …