zluuzki (2022-07-11 12:50:46+00:00): railway=abandoned means "it is in some way visible that an RR used to be there". I explained that to you, so you know it. (Let alone that that's in the wiki (#Actual use: "The Wiki-Definition: Is a key to map former railways, where the rails have been removed but the route is still visible in some way."), and you are here since 2017 and expected to read the page in detail if you're doing such mass deletions).
Many deleted tracks like the Atlanta Beltline tracks in Bankhead, West Atlanta have VERY obvious embarkments. If you don't see that, you're blind, and shouldn't delete anything, and if you see them but delete 'em anyway, thats nothing else than vandalism. 

Also, how do you have the mapping experience needed to conduct such mass deletions? If I check your editing stats at https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?CurlingMan13, you have edited 50 railway nodes and 300 ways, which is nothing (most of the ways must be from the recent deletion spree anyway). What this tells me is that you have no experience in rail mapping. And without such experience, you might not be able to see traces or you aren't aware of US-local mapping rules. And you shouldn't conduct any mass edits related to railways, especially not mass deletions.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Railroads encourages to map old RRs.
BTW, i edited 15k railway nodes and 30k ways.

Why map them? My arguments, copied from another discussion:
- "The point of having them in OSM is to render them in openrailwaymap.org. So if you're deleting them, you're damaging this project"
- "Abandoned railroads have with at least 90% probability traces, which are mappable. So it makes sense to add the remaining 10% without to have a !very! good dataset regarding old routes. " [Which exists nowhere else than on OSM]
-"...You can't move things from OSM to OHM. It's literally illegal due to different licencing... properly merging that data type from two seperate databases is very hard"
-"You're expecting me to spend thousands and thousands of hours of work, if I want good data, even though the same result could be achieved with SIGNIFICANTLY less work here."
- and after all, why do you even care? In most cases, we're talking about a single line which goes thru a town. NOT an old city layout from 1940 on top of current data. How can you get so upset about a single line somewhere?
Look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/33.80943/-84.45441
An old railyard, tons of railway=abandoned next to each other. If these are now being built over with a new neighborhood, then I can understand if you delete the old tracks. Because then it becomes too confusing. But in this CS and almost all other uses of rw=razed, it's just a single line or maybe, rarely two. Why can't you just let people map it and be not so persnickety? I don't understand all this drama.

Don't me come with DWG. The choice you have is to just let me do my thing and you continue closing notes which was way more helpful to the data quality than going from city to city and mass deleting valid data.
If you need DWG to prove me why those deletions are right, it shows me that you don't have good arguments to delete my data.