The Railroad Café has a strong link to the Old Draper Speedway and the many racing heroes of the past.
It is also a link to the old Fieldcrest mill village. It is one of those places where everyone knows everybody.
In Rockingham County. It’s on the corner of North Main Street and NC 770, next to an abandoned textile mill. It’s the last relics of the old mill village of Draper.
Homer Wood is the Railroad Cafe’s ,70-year-old proprietor. His his father and mother both worked at Fieldcrest, but his dad left the company and opened the cafe next to the railroad tracks in 1955.
Two years after in 1957, Homer Wood’s father moved the cafe to the white brick building that used to be a Pure Oil gas station and a Cadillac dealership.
The mill was shut down in the ‘60s.
