This changeset has been re-instated in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/148681678#map=14/42.8903/-85.3404, even if the argument could be made for some of the railways existing, it cannot be made for all of them, and since the revert also deleted valid objects like https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1261324993, it is unquestionably vandalism, and the DWG has been notified of it