The Lionel Hudson Type 4-6-4-Locomotive No. 2065 with its distinctive feed water heater was a welcome addition to Lionel’s fleet of 027 locomotives in 1954. Based on a Santa Fe prototype, this engine was equipped with Magnetraction, smoke, drive rod connecting rod valve gear, and there was a whistle in the tender. It shared the same boiler casting with the O gauge No. 665. There are three variations:

Variation A: Rubber-stamped number on boiler, with a No. 2026W or No. 2046W tender that have bar-end trucks without a tabbed coupler. Produced in 1954.

Variation B: Heat-stamped number on boiler, with a No. 2026W or No. 2046W tender that have bar-end trucks without a tabbed coupler. Produced in 1955.

Variation C: Heat-stamped number on boiler, with a No. 2026W tender that has bar-end trucks and a tabbed coupler. Produced in 1956.

This locomotive shares that same trailing truck, that has plastic sides, with the No. 2055.