In his book "One Man's Locomotives", Vernon Smith had a good section on starting up an 0-6-0 iron mine switcher as a fireman in the late twenties. He describes starting a fire with "waste" and oil, then adding coal from bags kept by the enginehouse. Water was fed to the tank with a hose. In a few hours the fire would be hot enough to move the engine to a central location with a coaling tower and water tank.