The union, known as BLET, was seeking pay comparable to the wages made by engineers at other nearby railroads, including Long Island Rail Road. NJ Transit, which has long had shaky finances, was trying to avoid blowing a hole in its own budget.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri announced a tentative agreement to end the three-day rail strike. Trains will resume running on their regular schedules on Tuesday, said NJ Transit’s president and CEO.

After a whirlwind three days of diverting tens of thousands of people from NJ Transit's rail system, the agency reached a tentative deal with its locomotive engineers to end a historic strike that sent shockwaves statewide — just in time for the work week.