PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- Families forced to leave their homes Wednesday after a train derailed and caught fire were finally able to go back to their neighborhood on Saturday.

The train fire burned for more than 60 hours after 32 cars derailed, NewsChannel5 reported. It forced more than 1,000 people in Painesville out of their homes. CSX Railroad put them up in area hotels.

The train was hauling chemicals, lumber and corn.

The environmental cleanup is under way. After that is finished, the railroad must replace more than 500 yards of track.

Painesville residents, especially those in the Heisley Park neighborhood, were happy to be able to go home.

"We didn't even take the medications we take so we had to come back and trample through the yards to get here, its been an ordeal," said Brenda Mollard.

The trains could start running again Sunday.