Tag:historic=railway_car

A tag for a decommissioned railway car (in some parts of the world called railcar, freight car, coach, wagon or waggon) which has become a tourist attraction and generally remains in one place. The rail car can be any type of rolling stock, but not a locomotive.

This can also be used for anything that is even remotely rail-bound, like experimental rocket-sleds, monorail cars etc that are set on a pedestal.

For historic locomotives, see historic=locomotive instead.

How to map

Place a node at the location of the railway car or draw an area for the outline and use historic=railway_car. You can also tag it with name=*. If the railway car is a tourist attraction, then add tourism=attraction.

Some railway cars are located in a building. Draw an area , and add building=*. Set the railway car separately as a point or an area inside the building. Sometimes, a railway car is used as a building. You can use building=* on such a vehicle, but only if it is truly stationary (e.g. it has fixed plumbing and power lines connected to it, or has had its wheels removed).

Additional tags

• name=* – The name of the carriage, if it has one.
• description=* – Can be used to provide additional information about the railway car to the map user.
• railway_car=* – Use freight for a (former) freight car, passenger for a passenger car, caboose for a caboose or brake van, or come up with your own, more detailed value.
• operator=* – The (current) operator (i.e., maintainer or exhibitor) of the carriage.
• start_date=* – Build date of the carriage.
• wikidata=* – Individual museum carriages may have a Wikidata item which can be tagged here.
• wikipedia=* – Individual museum carriages may have a Wikipedia page which can be tagged here.
• tourism=attraction – To mark it as a tourist attraction.
• heritage=* – If registered by an official heritage organisation.
• ref=* – Reference number or code of the carriage, if applicable.
• gauge=* – Standard distance between the rails it ran on.

If the railway car has some kind of amenity=* like a bar, restaurant or tourism=* like a hotel or a museum, it can be tagged as a separate node with its own name and further information.

Remarks

Don't use building=* on trains, even if they remain in one place, but are capable of being moved by rail.

Examples

Image	Tags	OSM Carto
4839930143 4839930143	historic=railway_car railway_car=freight memorial=war_memorial description=Wooden car to commencerate the Jews and gipsys deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, in front of the Kazerne Dossin museum

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  Possendorf railway car of the Windbergbahn (1856-1957); Saxony, Germany

Maps showing locomotives

MapComplete/historic_rolling_stock

See also

• historic=locomotive A decommissioned locomotive
• historic=minecart A mining memorial

Related terms: ‹ locomotive ›