Lionel 208 Santa Fe

The Lionel Santa Fe 208 diesel was first manufactured in 1958 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 one of only two postwar Lionel diesels to wear the freight livery for Santa Fe-all others wore passenger liveries. It is one of the second wave of Lionel Alco diesels that were of cheaper construction that the earlier ones.

Other features include front and rear die-cast 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 produced for two years, 1957 and 1958, with only one known variation.

They differ from the almost identical Lionel 204 Santa Fe in that the unpowered dummy unit lacks illumination.