Stickey or permanent?

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Fred's Loco Shop Foreman
I'm working on several different response trains; major forest fire, hurricane, and train wreck, each run by different entities. The Forest Service will run the Fire Train, complete with special painted locomotives, bunk cars for the firefighters, water cars, and flat cars full of brush trucks, tankers, and dozers. The Hurricane Relief Train will be run by the Texas and Gulf Coast Railroad in 3 sections. The first will be a ROW clearing and inspection train. The second section will be a MOW train to repair any major damage to the line, and the 3rd section will be a community relief train to provide power, refrigeration, food, medicine, and other essentials to communities along the route.

The 3rd train would be a wreck response train run by Fred's Locomotive Shop. Carrying bunk cars, wrecking cranes, rail, ties, ballast, and several flat car loads of vehicles (pickups and vans for running around the local area) and equipment: Bull dozers, backhoes, side-lift dozers, front end loaders, dump trucks... stuff to clean up the mess and rebuild the line, and a shoe-fly to get things running again.

I'm trying to find a way to attach the equipment and vehicles to the flat cars that is not permanent, but is solid enough to run the train on a NMRA modular layout. If I have to, I suppose I can CA them down, but if I ever get into these trains enough to buy a $50 bulldozer, I sure as heck want to be able to move it around...

as anyone used Microscale's Liquid Tape?

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...e=MI-10&Category_Code=FINPROD&Product_Count=5

could I use it for this project?
 
Well, how much handling of these cars are you going to do? A tiny drop of just plain white glue should probably hold it well enough if all they are just going round & round on the layout, but should also come off with minimal effort as well.

I have done this with a lot of other models, kits, and "action figures" on display bases where I wanted them secured to a base but not permanently glued down. The glue holds them well enough to their base but simply snaps off with minimal effort and no damage.
 
I second the idea of white glue (elmer's). It will dissolve with water or isopropyl alcohol. Clear latex RTV would also work and won't get hard. it will remove with isoprpyl.
 


White glue it is. Now I'm just concerned that someone will gripe about the lack of details (tie down chains and such), but they can go count rivets on their own cars...
 
How 'bout Woodland Scenics tacky glue - I can't remember the right name. The stuff meant for positioning figures so they can be moved and repositioned. Kind of like the rubber cement that fastens a credit card to the page it somes with.
 
Next time you're at a craft store, see if they have any Scotch #859 clear mounting squares. They are easily removed and almost invisible when used because they are so thin. They also work well for securing figures to the layout that you don't won't glued down permanently.
 
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