the title suggests the journey includes the train's crossing though Rock Island. Rock Island is one of the markers of the outer edge of the range of Project X in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Rock Island is mentioned several times in Jack Kerouac's book On the Road. Sal (Jack Kerouac) says that it was in Rock Island "for the first time in my life that I saw my beloved Mississippi River dry in the summer haze." Rock Island Line is the title of a 1975 novel by David Rhodes. In the 1977 episode "Breaker, Breaker" of Good Times, where Nathan Bookman hides a CB radio in the Evans' apartment, during a scene where Willona Woods gets on the CB with a man who says he's coming back into Chicago from "that Rock Island town" and wanted to know if she and Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods could meet up. The Blues Brothers are from Rock Island. In the 1996 film Hard Eight, John, played by John C. Reilly, says that they are staying in Rock Island, Illinois. In the 2001 film America's Sweethearts, Larry King takes a call from a viewer in Rock Island, Illinois. Part of the film Road to Perdition (2002) takes place in Rock Island. The first track of the soundtrack is entitled Rock Island. The movie was based on the 1998 graphic novel, which was in turn based on the life of Rock Island gangster John Looney. In the 2006 film Death of a President, Al Claybon, the character behind the assassination of George W. Bush, resided in Rock Island. In the 2016 film War Dogs, the US military interviews main characters David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli at the Rock Island Arsenal. Notable people David Ackles, singer-songwriter, pianist, and child actor Eddie Albert, Oscar-nominated actor and activist, known for television series, Green Acres and Switch, and films Black Hawk, leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe Ken Bowman, Ken Duncan and Herm Schneidman, players for NFL's Green Bay Packers George Davenport, American frontiersman, trader, U.S. Army soldier, and Indian agent Steve Decker, catcher with the San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies and Anaheim Angels Frederick Denkmann, lumber mogul and partner of Friedrich Weyerhäuser Pony Diehl, Wild West outlaw Booker Edgerson, Buffalo Bills Lane Evans, former United States Congressman (Illinois 17th District); born in Rock Island Russell Farnham, one of the first settlers of