Section 177. Use of tracks of other roads

Any railroad corporation in this
  state,  whose cars are run and operated by horses or other motive power,
  authorized by this article, upon the surface of the street, excepting in
  the county of New York, may, for the purpose of enabling it  to  connect
  with  and  run  and  operate its cars between its tracks, and a depot or
  car-house owned by it, run upon, intersect, and use, for  not  exceeding
  five  hundred  feet,  the  tracks of any other railroad corporation, the
  cars of which are run and operated in like  manner  with  the  necessary
  connections and switches for the proper working and accommodation of the
  cars  upon  such tracks, and in connection with such depot or car-house,
  upon paying therefor such compensation as it may  agree  upon  with  the
  corporation  owning the tracks to be so run upon, intersected, and used;
  and in case such corporations can not agree  upon  the  amount  of  such
  compensation, the same shall be ascertained and determined in the manner
  prescribed in the eminent domain procedure law.