Section 85. Certain railroads may cease operation in winter

The directors
  of any railroad corporation operating a railroad, constructed  and  used
  principally  for  transporting lumber or ores, during the summer months,
  or for summer travel, may, by a resolution  duly  passed  at  a  meeting
  thereof,  apply  to the commissioner of transportation for permission to
  cease the operation of their road during the winter season, for a period
  not exceeding seven months in any one year, specifying the date of  such
  suspension, and the date of the reopening thereof, and such commissioner
  of  transportation  may,  in  his discretion, make an order granting the
  application wholly or in part, and thereupon such  railroad  corporation
  shall  be  relieved  of the duty of operating its road during the period
  specified in the order. A copy of such order  shall  be  posted  in  all
  depots  and  at  the  termini  of  such railroad, and published in every
  newspaper in each  town  in  any  part  of  which  such  road  shall  be
  constructed at least four weeks prior to the date of such suspension.