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George C. Clarke

An early 20th-century civil engineer, he is remembered for a detailed paper on the site and preliminary work for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s New York Tunnel Extension. His surviving published work offers a close-up look at the planning behind one of New York’s great infrastructure projects.

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157

by George C. Clarke

About the author

Very little biographical information about George C. Clarke was easy to confirm from reliable online sources, but his published work shows him to have been active in civil engineering in the early 1900s.

He is credited as the author of a paper in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers from September 1910, focused on "The Site of the Terminal Station." Project Gutenberg’s record for his work describes it as part of the engineering documentation surrounding the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with attention to the planning and construction of the terminal site.

Because so few dependable biographical details were available, Clarke’s legacy is best understood through that surviving technical writing: practical, precise, and closely tied to one of the era’s landmark rail projects.