Section 55. Accommodation of connecting roads  


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  • Every railroad corporation
      whose road, at or near the same place, connects with or  is  intersected
      by  two  or  more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and
      impartially afford to each of  such  connecting  or  intersecting  roads
      equal   terms   of  accommodation,  privileges  and  facilities  in  the
      transportation of cars, passengers, baggage and freight  over  and  upon
      its  roads  and  over  and upon their roads, and equal facilities in the
      interchange and use  of  passenger,  baggage,  freight  and  other  cars
      required  to  accommodate  the  business of each road, and in furnishing
      passage tickets to passengers who may desire to make a  continuous  trip
      over  any  part  of  its  roads and either of such connecting roads. The
      commissioner of transportation may, upon application of the  corporation
      owning  or operating either of the connecting or intersecting roads, and
      upon fourteen days' notice to the corporation owning  or  operating  the
      other  road, prescribe such regulations as will secure, in its judgment,
      the enjoyment of equal privileges, accommodations and facilities to such
      connecting or intersecting roads as may be required to  accommodate  the
      business  of each road, and the terms and conditions upon which the same
      shall be afforded to each road. The  decision  of  the  commissioner  of
      transportation  shall  be  binding on the parties for two years, and the
      supreme court shall have power to compel the performance thereof  in  an
      action or special proceeding, by injunction or otherwise.