Hudson

Hudson was the engineer for the Rockport Limited. He was murdered by Jenkins and had his hands stolen to be used in opening the cryptsafe. One of his hands has a terrible odor.

Hudson's role as engineer meant that after he introduced himself to the Tres Horny Boys he occupied his time in the very front of the train and also meant that only by resting his hands on the magical box in the luggage carriage, could the passengers' confiscated weapons and otherwise valuable items could be retrieved.

It is later revealed that Hudson was murdered (more specifically beheaded and behanded) by Jenkins using his silver port wand by closing the portal whilst Hudson came through. Even though his body was quickly discovered by Graham and then investigated by Angus McDonald and the boys and mistaken to be Jenkins. Angus and the boys investigating further come to the conclusion of what actually happened, and upon reaching the luggage carriage it is revealed that Jenkins had used his magic to form two meat golems out of Hudson's hands and were using them to open the magical box to steal the valuables within. The boys defeat the first golem and Jenkins attempts to trap them by destroying the golem after pointing out that the train is on a collision course and only the engineer's hands can hit the breaks. Jenkins attempts, and fails to use a fireball to destroy the golem which throws Jenkins off the train. The boys dispatch of the meat golem thereafter and find their own solution.