Trains were once important to Mount Dora, its major link with the outside [see Mount Dora Watercolors (you'll need to scroll down a bit when you get there) for more detail and other train related paintings]. The last train, a short excursion for visitors, stopped running some time ago because the track was deemed unsafe and funding was not available for making repairs. Thus, the roadbed is now rusted, rotted, and weed ridden, the once proud red overpass faded to a sad pink. Perhaps the roadside signage is a metaphor. Any resemblance to Edward Hopper's railroad painting is purely coincidental (right).