According to the wiki, railway=preserved means "A railway running
historic trains, usually a tourist attraction". The concept is simple
enough. But there are some edge cases. Which of these is a preserved
railway?
1. A railway running replicas of historic trains
2. A tourist railway running modern trains on a preserved line (example:
the White Pass and Yukon Route has new diesels from the 1980s, newer
than some older diesels still used on major freight railroads)
3. A streetcar line running historic streetcars in regular commuter
service (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattapan_High_Speed_Line)
4. A tourist railway using neither preserved trackage nor preserved trains
5. An amusement park railway, using either historic or recent trains
4 and sometimes 5 seem to not fit the definition or its intent, yet are
not standard rail lines (thus railway=rail seems incomplete). Perhaps
something like railway=tourist would better capture the intent.
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