It's not unintuitive, it's just not the same as US legal definitions. disused = no longer used abandoned = track/infrastructure removed
OK, I see your point. The real problem is that disused would be used for two different situations. But, is "abandoned" really in use in other countries to mean what in the US we call "old railroad grade"? (Here I am taking USGS norms to be established practice in the US.) Does anyone who is into old railroads think these values make sense? Is there somewhere that describes the difference between "abandoned" and "out of service" railways, preferably something which is verifiable (in the OSM sense, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability)? The Surface Transportation Board of the ICC makes abandonment decisions, and they are published by the federal government. An example: http://regulations.vlex.com/vid/railroad-abandonment-lamoille-valley-22682301 I'm not saying this is trivial to find, but it's a legal fact and very verifiable. It's not really any different from a private way being accepted by a town and becoming a public way, or whether people have a legal right to walk on some path.
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