I am a vet as far as the rails are concerned here in Canada. I hail from the nations capital Ottawa. I have had the oppertunity to ride on the brand new equipment thathas Via has recently purchesed. The new cars are called the "Renaissance" cars. they are configured with a single seat on one side of the car and 2 on the other. there are also a sleeper version of this car I am not sure of the specs on it and there is a service car witch contains a bar and pasenger lounge areas. eace coach style consis is mad of 7 cars a baggage usualy 3 coaches 1 firstclas car the service car and a second first class car at the rear. these consists are being used betwen Ottawa and Montreal and Montreal and Quebec City. the sleeper consists are being run from Montreal and Toronto on the overnight run called the Enterprise. The plans from Via are to expand the Renaissance cars to the east from Montreal to Halifax and on the transcontinental run once they reconfigure the coupleing system to fit with the Streamlined equipment that is curently run. I like them and would like to see the fleet expanded even further.