Union members cited five years without wage increases and said the new contract aims to bring NJ Transit wages closer to regional norms, which average around $113,000 a year for NJ Transit engineers, with union demands aiming as high as $170,000 a year.

New Jersey Transit train engineers have gone on strike in a dispute over wages, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home.

New Jersey trains were back up and running at full service early Tuesday after the end of the engineer’s strike that thrust the nation’s third-busiest commuter railroad into chaos for four