AMARILLO, TEXAS -- A Santa Fe caboose will soon be making it's way to Perryton, but it won't get there on railroad tracks.

The caboose, which survived the recent Willow Creek fires, will be moved to the Museum of the Plains in Perryton.

The caboose was purchased by the museum before the wildfires damaged it last month.

The plan is to put it in the museum's railroad depot.

"Perryton came into existence because of the Santa Fe Railroad. Recently the railroad through Perryton was removed and we obtained the crossing on Highway 83, and we thought it'd be very nice to have a caboose to put on that old crossing at our museum site," said Randy Mclain, Museum of the Plains Board Member.

Mclain says the caboose will be sent to a rail service company to be repainted and refurbished on the outside.

He is not sure how long it will take to be on display at the museum.

The caboose was sold to the museum by Natalie and David Bryant. 

The Bryant's lost their home to the wildfires, but the caboose survived the flames.

"We're glad to see it's going somewhere where it'll be preserved and we can still go see it and history will go on," said Natalie Bryant, former caboose owner.

David Bryant purchased the caboose in 1999 and actually lived in it for almost three and a half years -- back then he called it his bachelors pad.

The Bryant's will rebuild their home on their property in the Willow Creek area.