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The boom should stay on the tender - the idea is that the pivoted mounting on the tender allows the boom to stay on through the curves, where it behaves much like a very long car with the boom tender as one "truck" and the crane chassis as the other. Many of these big cranes were steam powered right to the end - well after steam locos had been retired they were still in use. They still had years of life left in them (cranes typically don't run for many hours at a time, compared to a loco) and the time taken to raise steam wasn't really a problem.
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