A person who rides, leads, or drives a horse or other animal or operates a motor vehicle or a snowmobile upon a railroad, and within such fences and guards, other than at road and farm crossings, without the consent of the corporation shall forfeit not more than $50.00 to be recovered by the corporation in an action on this statute, and shall also pay the damages sustained thereby to the party aggrieved. (Amended 1967, No. 341 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.)