Yep, soft and not very good light. Your shutter speed was too slow for the train movement, and or you shot free hand on a stopped train and moved. I don't think you have enough pixels and or color depth to 'smooth' out the grains, even in a resize to site standards.
Proper exposures, in good light just 'poop' out at you. This is, sorry to say drab lighting. The sky is very light, your camera's light meter spoofed you on this photograph. Read the sky and then shoot the train, is one way I try to get around this occurrence, it happens to everyone. As to UP power being rare in your neck of the woods, I feel the same on old Conrail units out west . . . but no one else cares.
The picture needs to stand on its own, and not have 'rare' power get it in. Unless of course it is so. But short of an ACE or DDX or a UP 8500 GETL showing up . . . it is only rare for you. As the above is for me on the Conrails . . .
Make the picture sell and the 'rare' power will just tag along, but pay you in views.
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