The Staten Island Railway's Travis Branch was constructed in the 1930s south from Arlington Yard into the marshes of the island's wastern shore to Gulfport It was built in order to serve the recently constructed Gulf Oil refinery. The small yard on the refinery property had a capacity for 150 tank cars. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad built wood trestles to carry the track over the many creeks that dissect the right-of-way to Travis.