A report recognized Gibbon's street railway track improvements.
On April 1, 1892, a sub-committee report from the Franklin Institute recognized Catherine L. Gibbon's significant advancements in street railway track construction. This recognition by such a prestigious institution highlighted her innovative designs and substantiated her technical contributions to engineering at that time. It served not only to acknowledge her specific achievements but also to bolster her reputation in a male-dominated field, showing that her work was integral to urban infrastructure improvement.