A tentative agreement has been reached to end a New Jersey rail strike by raising the wages of locomotive engineers and trainees whose picketing halted the country’s third-largest transit system and threatened to snarl New York City work commutes this week.

New Jersey Transit trains will begin running again on Tuesday after the agency reached a tentative deal on Sunday with striking rail engineers on wage increases, ending a three-day work stoppage that had left tens of thousands of commuters to New York scrambling to find alternative transportation.

Morning service on NJ Transit’s rail lines was back on track Tuesday following an engineers strike this weekend, with trains operating on their regular schedules throughout the New Jersey