{"id":27883,"date":"2025-06-02T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=27883"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:10:16","slug":"sen-ossoff-pressing-csx-to-strengthen-rail-safety-prevent-train-derailments-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pressing-csx-to-strengthen-rail-safety-prevent-train-derailments-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Pressing CSX to Strengthen Rail Safety, Prevent Train Derailments in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2014 <\/strong>Amid a string of recent train derailments, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressing CSX to strengthen rail safety and prevent derailments that threaten public safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Sen. Ossoff launched an inquiry with the CEO of CSX Transportation, Joseph Hinrichs, pressing for action by the company in the wake of two recent derailments of CSX train cars in Georgia and requesting specific solutions to prevent derailments in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 25, 6 CSX train cars derailed in Fayette County<\/a>. It was later reported<\/a> that CSX had been warned by law enforcement several hours earlier that they had found broken tracks at the intersection where the derailment later occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 9, just 6 weeks later, 17 train cars derailed in a residential area of Smyrna<\/a> in the middle of the night \u2013 just feet from homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI write to express serious concern about two recent derailments of CSX train cars in Georgia, and to request specific solutions from CSX as soon as possible on plans to prevent such derailments in the future,\u201d Sen. Ossoff wrote to Mr. Hinrichs. <\/strong>\u201cMore must be done to protect my constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese significant operational failures could have seriously injured or killed my constituents, and CSX must do more to prevent a more serious incident from occurring in the future,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to improve transportation safety to protect Georgia businesses and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock delivered Federal resources<\/a> through the Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program, created and funded through the bipartisan infrastructure law, to provide Federal funding for projects to address safety concerns at rail crossings through a competitive U.S. Department of Transportation grant process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock delivered Federal resources<\/a> for Chatham, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties through the Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock also delivered<\/a> $12 million in new Federal funding for a project in Jenkins County that will improve mobility by helping eliminate railway-highway crossings through the bipartisan infrastructure law\u2019s Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Sen. Ossoff launched an inquiry<\/a> with the Federal Railroad Administration as part of the Agency\u2019s ongoing investigation into trains causing traffic delays, submitting testimonials from cities, counties, and constituents across the state encountering blocked railroad crossings, harming residents\u2019 abilities to work, school, the grocery store, doctor\u2019s offices, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click aqu\u00ed<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 Amid a string of recent train derailments, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressing CSX to strengthen rail safety and prevent derailments that threaten public safety.  Last week, Sen. Ossoff launched an inquiry with the CEO of CSX Transportation, Joseph Hinrichs, pressing for action by the company in the wake of two recent derailments […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27883","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27884,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27883\/revisions\/27884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}