The trains Amtrak says will get Airo's: NER (NEC, Virginia and New Haven/Springfield), Empire (NY), Keystone, Downeaster, Cascades, Maple Leaf, Palmetto,
Carolinian, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter, Ethan Allen and Adirondack.
Amtrak divides itself into four parts: Acela, Autotrain, long distance, and state supported sub-750-mile service.
Well you probably knew all that. But the new, mandated planning above Amtrak's level at DOT seems to be all about LD? Before that were, and are, the HSR initiatives like SEHSR. Both the new plannning level and HSR are murky about state financing, as far as I can tell. Initial planning can be done with federal grants. States also vary in how large a staff they have for planning and running pax rail, even if they support sub-750 routes. NC's department is big, NY's is reportedly small. For the Piedmont, NC owns non-Amtrak-y locomotives and non-Amfleet cars.
Pet peeve: states don't update their state rail plans every five years. NC's is nine years old. The plans are key to seeing how much state money and federal grants go into freight rail. Not because that's bad, it just gives context. Every state but Hawaii makes one, or has made one.
https://www.ncdot.gov/divisions/rail/Pages/rail-plan.aspx
Developed every five years in compliance with the U.S. Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act, the N.C. Department of Transportation's Comprehensive State Rail Plan... were last approved and adopted in 2015. NCDOT is updating the plan...
This is par for the course.