New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.

New Jersey Transit's train engineers have reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service on the heavily traveled rail lines, including routes to Newark airport and New York City.

The strike that idled NJ Transit trains is over after three days, just in time for the Monday commute. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said Sunday night that after two days of post-strike negotiations they’d reached a deal and “will return to work and trains will begin running on their regular schedules Monday.