The right of way authorized for the Upper Lehigh Canal became an extension of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (LH&S), which the 1837 revised act had established to connect the Wyoming Valley to the Delaware River navigations; the railway would eventually build parallel the entire Lehigh Canal operated by its parent LHC&N. The route Philadelphia to Wilkes-Barre over the Lehigh and LH&S or eventual LH&S cut over 100 miles off the trip, including a similar distance saving Philadelphia to Pittsburgh (via Pitston Landing's canal docks).