§ 8-4-7-7 — Acquisition of property; eminent domain

Any such union railway company may erect,
construct, rebuild and replace, in connection with its tracks, union
depots, car sheds and such other structures and appliances as the
company may deem necessary to facilitate the transaction of its
business, and the business of its proprietary companies and of other
railroad companies whose tracks may connect therewith, and which
may acquire from such union railway company the right to use said
union tracks and their appliances. And such union company shall also
have power to locate, construct, rebuild, keep up, change and repair
such union railroad and its tracks, side-tracks, switches, depots, sheds
and other structures and appliances, and to take conveyances and
releases in fee simple or otherwise of rights of way and of such real
estate as it may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and may
condemn, in fee simple or otherwise, so much real estate and such
rights of way as it may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, or
any of them; also, to construct, own, maintain and operate union
passenger stations, local freight stations, transfer and connecting tracks,
between the property of such union company and property and tracks
of other railroad companies.
Formerly: Acts 1885, c.20, s.7.