History
The stop was next to the Shaw-Batcher steel mill, which opened in 1913; the mill was purchased by the Western Pipe and Steel Company in 1917. [4] 200 acres (81 ha) of land were acquired for a shipyard in August 1917, [5] and Shaw-Batcher was awarded a $30 million contract to build 18 merchant ships during World War I. The worksite population grew from 200 in early 1917 to 4,447 by July 1918, a month after the company's first ship was launched. [6] After the war, Western Pipe moved shipbuilding operations to San Pedro [7] [8] and continued to produce pipe in South San Francisco, which was used in notable dam projects such as Hetch Hetchy, Grand Coulee, Shasta, and Folsom. [9] The shipyard was reactivated in 1939 for World War II, [10] [11] and after the war ended, the site was sold in 1948 to Consolidated Steel (later United States Steel and its divisions), [12] which closed the mill in 1983. [12] Service to the Butler Road stop was also discontinued that year. [13]
The Butler Road stop was relatively little-used for much of its existence. In 1958, for example, only four of the 27 total northbound weekday commuter trains stopped at the station. [14] In 1978, only three of the 22 total northbound weekday trains stopped there. [15]
Butler Road, the roadway itself, has been renamed Oyster Point Boulevard. [16] [17] The Peninsula Commute service was taken over by the State of California and renamed Caltrain in 1985.
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