RAILROAD STATION GROUNDS 
Structural Design 
It is evident that these various units can be arranged in an in- 
finite variety of combinations. Obviously the simplest, most 
straightforward, most logical arrangement is to be desired. 
Fic. 90. WeLi-TREATED Rar~RroaD Station GROUNDS 
It seems clear from an examination of hundreds of examples 
that no general type of plan exists, at least in the eastern states. 
It might have been expected that the railroads would have stand- 
ardized the plans of their rural station grounds. It seems that 
none of the eastern railroads has done anything of this sort, but by 
no means clear that such a standardization of station grounds plans 
would not be preferable to the hap-hazard developments of the 
past. It would seem, however, to the average landscape architect 
that still better results could be secured by a careful study of each 
case on its own merits. Such study would begin with a consider- 
ation of local geography, specifically with the problem of adjusting 
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