New York Laws
Article 2 - Organization, General Powers and Location
22 - Proceedings to Determine Point at Which a New Railroad Shall Intersect One Already Established; Compensation; Duties of Intersecting Roads.

§ 22. Proceedings to determine point at which a new railroad shall
intersect one already established; compensation; duties of intersecting
roads. Every railroad corporation, whose road is or shall be intersected
by any new railroad, shall unite with the corporation owning such new
railroad in forming the necessary intersections and connections, and
grant the requisite facilities therefor. If the two corporations can not
agree upon the amount of compensation to be made therefor or upon the
line or lines, grade or grades, points or manner of such intersections
and connections, the same shall be ascertained and determined by the
supreme court. The court may determine whether the crossing or
crossings of any railroad before construction shall be beneath, at, or
above the existing grade of such railroad, and upon the route designated
upon the map of the corporation seeking the crossing or otherwise. All
railroad corporations whose roads are or shall hereafter be so crossed,
intersected or joined, shall receive from each other and forward to
their destination all goods, merchandise and other property intended for
points on their respective roads, with the same dispatch as, and at a
rate of freight not exceeding the local tariff rate charged for similar
goods, merchandise and other property, received at or forwarded from the
same point for individuals and other corporations.