Based on what you have reported, it sounds like the Railway is taking the right course. Discipline for willful violations should always be promptly administered, painful enough to reinforce the seriousness of the violation, and termination should be the discipline if the same willful violation (or an equally serious one) is repeated. Obviously WCRC is not running a tight ship, and they need to make immediate and permanent changes. If, by chance, the violation described in this thread was at the instructions of a manager, then it is even more serious. You can't accidentally cut out safety equipment.
When violations occur through a mistake by and employee, a less punitive and more corrective approach is usually a better approach.
