In an Alternate Universe Sodor has been going through a massive drought and there is barely anything left to sustain the Railway, leading to Sodor having to close and the engines locked away around the Island. That was until a few years later this group of anonymous people visited the railway to gather the engines and tell them that if they were to compete in a "Tournament" they would receive the supplies and money to have their railway re-opened. Now you may be thinking, what's this Tournament about? Well I guess you'll just have to find out.