Hi CurlingMan, Elliott from the Data Working Group here. I’d ask that you stop doing this deletion of these abandoned railroads. Users that are interested in them are complaining about your removal. That data may not be useful to you but it is useful to someone.

The data working group asks that you refrain from deleting abandoned railroads (such as in this change set or others).

Thank you,  

Elliott Plack  
OSMF Data Working Group  
Ticket#2023040710000267  
Contact me at data@openstreetmap.org with any questions and reference the ticket number above.