Down south in North Carolina, our locomotive frenemies are working very hard-ish. Mallard and Gadwall are pulling their usual trains, and the Ivatt Mogul is busy helping the Yard Goat shunt the yard.

The J50 Tank Engine and the L1 Tank Engine are resting in the roundhouse with some of their colleagues, including the Pennsylvania Railroad T1, who for the life of him won't shut his trap about how he's the true fastest steam locomotive in the world. The L1 Tank Engine has the sense not to listen, while the J50 is too busy longingly staring at the railgun across the yard to pay the T1 any mind. The T1 leaves, much to the delight of literally everyone.

The Dean Goods and the 56xx arrive in the yard, and nobody can figure out why on earth they were assigned a job together of all engines. Coincidentally, another new face has also arrived in the yard, an actual human for once! The human walks up to the J50, and the J50 begins screaming in terror. "What a horrid creature!!!" He shouts at the top of his non-existent lungs, before dashing out of the roundhouse in search of the moonshine wagons for no apparent reason.

You then walk over to the Jinty and Flying Scotsman, who are trying to convince the Pennsylvania Railroad K4 that he is not Scotsman's biological father. The Jinty says "Sorry about him, he's always this crazy. In fact, so are most of the engines around-"

The Jinty is cut off by a shell whizzing by them and striking the ground next to the roundhouse. As lack of luck would have it, not only has the J50 located the moonshine wagons and gotten more drunk than an Irishman on New Year's, but he's also managed to snag the gun from across the yard and bring it back to the roundhouse without the Yard Goat or the Ivatt Mogul realising. This is going to be a long first day.