N.Y. Railroad Law § 231: Where route coincides with another route

§ 231. Where route coincides with another route. Whenever the route or

routes determined upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or

routes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed for the

purpose of constructing and operating such a railroad, and it has not

forfeited its charter or failed to comply with the provisions thereof,

requiring the construction of a road or roads within the time therein

prescribed, such corporation shall have the like power to construct and

operate such railroad upon the fulfillment of the like requirements and

conditions imposed by the commissioners as a corporation specially

formed under this article, and the commissioners may fix and determine

the route or routes by which any elevated steam railroad now in actual

operation may connect with other steam railroads or the depots thereof,

or with steam ferries, upon making compensation therefor, and in case

such corporations can not agree with the owners of such steam railroads,

depots or ferries upon the amount of such compensation, and such owners

may be entitled to compensation therefor, the amount of such

compensation shall be ascertained and paid in the manner prescribed in

the condemnation law, and upon fulfillment by such elevated railroad

corporation, so far as it relates to such connection, of the

requirements and conditions imposed by this article, it shall possess

all the powers conferred by section two hundred and twenty-nine of this

article, and when any connecting route or routes shall be so designated,

such elevated railroad corporation may construct such connection with

all the rights and with like effect as though the same had been part of

the original route of such railroad.