Lionel 204 Santa Fe

The Lionel Santa Fe diesel was first manufactured in 1957 and is based on the Alco FA diesel. It features a blue painted body shell with yellow and red accents and yellow lettering. It is unique in that it is the only postwar Lionel diesel to be in the freight livery for Santa Fe-all others wore passenger liveries. It is one of the later postwar diesels that were of cheaper construction that the earlier ones.

Other features include front and rear diecast non-operating couplers, two axle Magnatraction, three position E-unit, functional horn, and illumination.

These were typically sold in a two unit configuration, with one powered unit and one unpowered dummy unit. They were only produced for one year in one known variation.

They differ from the almost identical Lionel 208 Santa Fe in that the dummy unit is illuminated.