NJ Transit trains are still not running Sunday as the engineer strike entered its third day and talks continued with a mediator at NJ Transit headquarters in Newark.The sides reportedly reached a tentative agreement to end the strike.

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.

NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri spoke Saturday at Newark's Broad Street Station, saying the agency is preparing for the workweek commute by “surging” buses to help commuters at train stations. But he cautioned that the buses can't handle the entire volume of the commuter rail system.