[Tagging] How to tag monumental railcars

[Mark Bradley]

> Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:56:13 +0200
> From: Tijmen Stam <mailinglists at iivq.net>
> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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> Subject: Re: [Tagging] How to tag monumental railcars
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> On 10-05-17 13:15, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> > On 10 May 2017 at 10:24, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I believe in British English it should be "waggon".
> >
> > "Waggon was preferred in British English until a century ago and it
> > still appears occasionally, but it is fast becoming archaic. In this
> > century, the shorter one is preferred in all main varieties of
> > English."
> >
> > http://grammarist.com/spelling/wagon-waggon/
> >
> >
> 
> I think I'm setting for historic=railway_car Which is the name Wikipedia uses for one
> item of railway rolling stock which is not a locomotive (be it a freight or passenger car
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_car
> 
> Railcar, in the UK rail parlance, means a single-car powered passenger car with driver
> stands (usually) at both ends.
> 
> I took the liberty of creating a wiki page (basically copied
> historic:locomotive):
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Drailway_car


After reading the Wikipedia article entitled "Railroad car" that you referred to, I think you should modify your wiki page to modify the description of "railway car" to include non-revenue cars.  I have mapped several cabooses (UK brake vans), a type of non-revenue car, and technically these don't fall under the categories of rolling stock, freight cars, or passenger cars/coaches.

Mark Bradley