camelback with tender - position of fireman

hi

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=168446
'Camelback' worked at the eight-mile CNJ Newark Branch in Newark, NJ anno 1950

Where is the workplace of the fireman on this 'camelback' steam engine ?
Does he stands / works between engine and tender ? There is a weather-proofed shelter for the fireman, right ?

Does the boiler go through the cab ? So the engineer has to left the cab to change the side of the cab, right ?

What was the advantages of these steam engine design ?

against these for example:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=181943
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 07&nseq=15

Bye

The fireman stood between the engine and the tender, shovelling coal as usual. There was a short roof over the backhead of the firebox, although by no means should it be called a "weatherproofed shelter."

The boiler passed through the cab and the engineer was restricted to the right-hand side unless he got out and walked around behind the firebox - not something he would want to do while running.

Many disadvantages to this design: engineer and fireman were isolated from each other; no one was able to look out the left-hand side of the locomotive; very little shelter for the fireman; engineer was forced to work in a very restricted space; probably more that don't come to mind.

Only advantage, and the reason for the design, was the ability to use a very wide firebox called a Wooten firebox after its designer. Some grades of coal released heat more slowly than others and the Wooten firebox provided a wide fire bed that compensated for the slow heat rate.

To add:

Wooten Fire boxes burned waste Anthracite Coal, thus making them very popular with the Anthracite railroads around the turn on the century.

another bad thing with this design was if the side rod came loose it would come through the cab and wipe out the engineer if it was on his side.