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My gosh, I hope braking doesn't weaken the horn, or I'm bailing! But no, that's not a problem, as there is an auxilary reservoir for appliances such as horns, bells and wipers. If I'm abut to wack some guy at a road, I'm laying on the horn to protect myself; the event recorder will dutifully record my horn blast right before I creamed this guy. One less thing for his lawyer (or his estate's lawyer) to pick at. I don't know why different horns should be less loud than others, but some are. If they are nearly inaudible, the engine can always be refused for safety reasons. I have one complaint about the new horns. I used to be able to play or feather them on the older yard and road power. No more. We had some exC&O, exexPM NW2's that had a single trumpet that you could make sound like a love sick moose! Those days are gone. My favorite sounding horn is the Leslie 5 chime. Sweet. One of the loudest horns was some ex B&O SW-1's built in 41/43. Just a single trumpet, but dang those things were loud! skeets
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