Southeast Beach Drive in Vancouver, Wash., is now officially a train horn quiet zone, city officials said, The Columbian reports. It's the first of nine crossings where various improvements - medians, crossing gates, street closures - may be used to hush the 24-hour call of horns.

The city has been working with the Federal Rail Administration and BNSF since 2004 to establishment this quiet zone, the city said in a statement.

Vancouver installed six-inch-high on-street medians that prevent drivers from making their way around the crossing gates at Beach Drive. The total cost, with labor, is about $5,000, planners have said.

While the new designation prohibits trains from blowing their horns there (unless there is something or someone on the tracks), the city cautioned that train engineers may continue to blow their horns for a few weeks there as they adjust.

The city has installed warning signs at the crossing, alerting drivers that trains do not sound their horns when crossing that location. In particular, Wintler Park visitors should drive cautiously and watch for trains.