Dan Padova posted:In the description it states that a fireman would shovel several tons of coal. Larger steam locomotives mostly had Archimedes screws, did they not ?
Yup, they sure did. Steam engines finally got so big that the firemen could not keep up with the shoveling. My Lionel LC+ 2-8-2 Mikado has a little round die-cast screw protrusion on the back of the cab, right below floor level, representing this.