red car

noun2

1. •
   (informal, historical) A streetcar of the former Pacific Electric Railway mass transit system that went all across Greater Los Angeles.

   • My father used to talk about how you could take a red car just about anywhere in the Los Angeles area.
2. •
   (historical) The entire now-defunct corporation and system of the Pacific Electric Railway.

   • The red car operated from 1901–1961.