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 work stoppage that had affected about 350,

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.

The New Jersey Transit rail strike will end Monday after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and NJ Transit managers reached a tentative agreement on Sunday, the union announced in a statement. Trains rains will resume running on their regular schedules Monday, union officials said.