I know their LD fleet is super-old and they're refurbishing it. What is their corridor fleet (i.e. the Quebec/Ontario services) made up of? The LRCs?
VIA has two "Long-Distance" fleets in reality. The Montreal to Halifax
Ocean is normally assigned an all Renaissance-equipped route with three dedicated consists, but currently (and this has been the case over the past few winters) one of the consists has been taken out of service to rehab the rapidly aging interiors while upgrading the handicap access to meet new requirements. While this is happening, a stainless steel Budd consist is substituted. Outside this one route, all the other LD trains (
Canadian, The Pas, Winnipeg-Churchill, Gaspe', Prince Rupert) use the vintage Budd-built stainless steel cars that are circa 1950's.
For the corridor fleet, they use all three classes of passenger car. It all depends on which train you pick time-wise in the schedule that generally dictates your class of railcar. For instance, me and my wife will be on Train #57 between Montreal and Toronto next Tuesday and it will be an all Budd stainless steel consist (VIA calls this their HEP-II fleet, meaning the cars were originally steam heated but upgraded to Head End Power, then upgraded again so that the cars have MU cables to allow for either a cab-car or locomotives on both ends; they are identified by having both the blue stripe and a smaller reflective yellow stripe above the windows.) Meanwhile, Train #61, which departs on the same route one hour later is equipped with an LRC consist. Train #659, which departs Montreal at 4 PM, is a Renaissance-equipped train.
If you are curious, you can tell what each train will be equipped with by going to VIA's website and checking out the scheduled routes. Scroll your cursor over each train number, and the URL for the connecting information page on that train will contain in the last three characters either HE2, REN, or LRC; and now you know how to tell what equipment you'll be rewarded with!