Hi there,
the current rendering is awesome, but I'd like to make some suggestions to make it even better.
I'm currently very interested in mapping railways, but specially the disused/abandoned/razed ones. OpenRailwayMap already does that in a beautiful way.
My suggestions are:
1) Render differently disused/abandoned/razed tram tracks from regular train tracks. I like the brown color (it remembers me a rusty rail :)). I suggest a slightly thinner line.
Example: This abandoned track running from Catete, Laranjeiras and Cosme Velho neighborhoods:
2) Render disused/abandoned/razed stations and halts. OpenStreetMap used to render disused stations in the "good ol' days" of Mapnik, before migrating to openstreetmap-carto (which is great! but unfortunately have this problem regarding stations). Disused stations used to be render in the same size as halts, but in gray. Nowadays they render normally on OSM which is very confusing... and on ORM they are not rendered at all (AFAICS).
At least, the B&W background image used on ORM seems to be generated by the old Mapnik, without using openstreetmap-carto, because the disused stations are rendered as I remember they were in OSM back ago. Anyway, my suggestion is to them be rendered like stations, but in brown (like disused/abandoned/razed lines) and perhaps in a smaller font.
Example: all the stations north of those main passager lines, such as (west to east): Francisco Sá, Praia Formosa, Barão de Mauá, Praia Formosa (again), Villa Guarany, Praia Formosa, Marítima
What's your opinion?
Cheers,
Arlindo