The National Mediation Board called NJ Transit and locomotive engineers to Washington to help thaw negotiations before a potential strike May 16.

If the engineers do walk off the job, the agency plans to increase bus service, saying it would add “very limited” capacity to existing New York commuter bus routes in close proximity to rail stations and will contract with private carriers to operate bus service from key regional park-and-ride locations during weekday peak periods.

Governor Phil Murphy said Wednesday night that he's "hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst" regarding a possible NJ Transit rail strike.

The labor dispute between New Jersey Transit (NJT) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) continues and, at this writing, trains in the Garden State and parts of New York

A top New Jersey Transit union official said Friday the railroad needs to make significant movement on wages if a potentially crippling strike is to be averted before a May 16 deadline.

NJ Transit pushed a critical service advisory to its hundreds of thousands of customers Thursday, urging them to get to their destinations before midnight or risk being stranded at the start of the first rail strike in decades.

Engineers at New Jersey Transit are poised to go on strike one minute after midnight Friday morning, a stoppage that would create huge problems for100,000 daily train commuters, businesses across the New York metropolitan area as well as fans of Shakira and Beyoncé,

Earlier in the day, their union met with NJ Transit to continue negotiations on a new contract to avoid a possible Friday strike. CBS News New York's Lisa Rozner reports.