All Ruth Casper wants is to make her mark on the world, but in the post-Civil War South she\'s considered a person of no consequence.
Ruth encourages him to construct the brake, and the two of them undergo a perilous trip north to Washington to have it pat.
It\'s based on an invention that her husband, Henry, a tinkerer and a dreamer, has been unable to bring to reality.
After witnessing a speeding locomotive massacre a herd of wild elk, she conjures up the design for an improved railroad brake.
All Ruth Casper wants is to make her mark on the world, but in the post-Civil War South she\'s considered a person of no consequence