NJ Transit is already preparing for the walkout by urging as many people as possible to start working from home.

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.

NJ Transit and an engineers’ union appear to be steaming ahead to the first major rail strike in decades starting early Friday, even as both sides convene in Washington, D.C., where they pledged to continue negotiations.

With a strike looming as soon as Friday, officials of NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met with the National Mediation Board on Monday in Washington. No agreement was reached. NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri thanked the board for convening the meeting in a statement,