On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:

Champ developed the ability to make very tiny print, although it
was not perfectly legible. I think that the older sets inherited from
Max Gray were guilty of oversize lettering as well as the out-of-scale
stuff that Tony mentioned. Champ's later sets especially some of
the BRH
and SHS series were better than, or as good as, anything else
available.

Tim is right. The sets Rich produced in the last few years before he
died were vastly better those produced from the original Max Gray
artwork, and even the latter were often progressively improved as
reprinting became necessary. Rich had a thing about legibility, but
in later years several of us persuaded him that we wanted repacking
data and such in the correct size, whether it was legible or not, and
(with misgivings) he produced it. The Champ sets for reweigh
weights, dates, station symbols, and repacking data are, in my
opinion, superior to anything else available, and more
comprehensive. I bought a whole bunch of them and I use them on
almost every freight car model.

Richard Hendrickson