Deleting tags where you have obviously no clue what they mean and then refusing to engage in ANY discussion whatsoever - THIS is vandalism.

@woodpeck: I urge you to take a quick look at the "USGS 3D Elevation Program" layer in the ID-Editor. This confirmes the on-the-ground traces "railway=abandoned" refers to immediatly. (But so does also the way the vegetation is shaped and other things)

(To be clear, "non-existing" things can be deleted, but the things in question here are !clearly! existing)