Dave, I was thinking about keeping the postwar couplers on since it gives me some flexibility to pull some postwar cars that I have.
Yes, the eBay seller certainly gets an A+ on his packaging. I may not have mentioned and it may not have been clear in the pictures, the 2 pieces of T-Rail track were on a whole separate section/layer of Styrofoam, almost like 2 separate floors in a house.
Tom