50-16-104. Power of condemnation authorized.

The Western and Atlantic Railroad (the corporation existing by virtue of the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad property from the State of Georgia by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, made March 4, 1968) is authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation the title to all such real estate and other property as may be necessary or proper for the construction or maintenance of main line tracks, sidetracks, spur tracks, passing tracks, stations or station facilities, shops, section houses, pumping houses, roundhouses, pipelines, signal telegraph or telephone lines, or for the maintenance of the track or tracks of the railroad or other railroad uses, in connection with the maintenance or operation of the Western and Atlantic Railroad properties.