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It was designed during the mid-Canal era as part of an overall strategic schema to lift heavy freight eastwards out of the Susquehanna Valley in suburban Southeastern Wilkes-Barre into the eastside descents which ended in the big coastal cities of the Eastern United States accessible via the Delaware Valley.