Whenever the railroad lands or other property of any railroad corporation created by or under any law of the United States or of the state or the part of the railroad, lands or other property of any such corporation situated in the state is sold by virtue of a mortgage or deed of trust or pursuant to the judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction or by virtue of any execution issued thereon, the purchasers at any such sale may acquire and become vested with the property sold and may acquire any other property and franchises, rights and powers of the corporation in this state or elsewhere. Purchasers may associate with themselves any number of persons and with their associates may become a corporation with power to own, operate, exercise and enjoy the properties, franchises, rights and powers acquired by the purchasers upon making, acknowledging and filing in the office of the secretary of state a certificate in which the purchasers describe by name and by reference to the charter or law under which it was organized, the corporation whose property or part of whose property the purchasers have acquired, the court by whose authority the sale was made, with the date of the judgment or decree authorizing or directing the sale, a brief description of the property sold and also the following particulars:
NMS § 63-5-1