The NJ Transit strike is over after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen approved a deal Sunday. Train service will resume on Tuesday.The strike halted trains across New Jersey for three days before the tentative agreement with the engineers was reached.

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 Transit trains will begin operating again on Monday after the agency reached a deal with striking rail engineers on wage increases, the engineers' union said on Sunday, ending a three-day work stoppage that affected about 350,