Hi zluukzki,
I see your point but I would counter: Per the wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway=abandoned) this tag is to be used when there are remaining infrastructural features such as sleepers, signals, and signage, none of which remain on this route. In some places the legal right of way has been vacated to adjacent property owners per county records. Apart from one remaining bridge across Potato Creek, the only physical remnant of the route is the embankment. As a compromise I've changed some of these ways to embankments where applicable (changeset #145668434), but the railway route does not exist anymore as such and I believe should be mapped on OpenHistoricalMaps.