Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey's huge commuter railroad will pick up on Saturday and continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said. The locomotive engineers' strike began Friday at the rail system with 350,

New Jersey Transit officials and its rail engineers union were meeting Saturday for negotiations toward ending a strike that forced a shutdown to the commuter service on Friday.

Maplewood, which ordinarily runs jitney buses to and from the township’s NJ Transit rail station, announced that in the event of a strike buses will be re-rerouted to the South Orange station, which is offering Manhattan express bus service.