Trying to save a sunset picture

[Orpheuss]

Hello,

I took this picture from a moving train, it was a very beautiful sunset and could not help myself, but as the window of the train was quite dirty (and opening it was not possible, damn those modern trains) I had to crop it to this size and add noise to hide the spots from the dirty window.

What do you think? Is it worthy to keep it? Can it be improved from the current state? Maybe I should drop the noise and try photoshop-ing the spots?



EXIF info:
Focal length 150 mm
speed 1/125
Aperture f5.6
ISO 450

[navcom]

Hi! Something that will help a bit is to increase your contrast. That will take some of the hazy effects from the window out.

[LeeR]

Without seeing the original I can only speculate as to whether or not the "healing" process would work better. What I can tell you is that the lack of sharpness in the silhoutted skyline at the bottom needs to be fixed. Whatever process adds sharpness and contrast there will be the one I would choose.

[Orpheuss]

Thank you for your comments, I tried to follow your advises.

I took the original (cropped a bit), I applied some USM, then an Auto contrast from Picassa and this is the result:

From Semi selection

If you know a better way for contrast please share the info

How does this variant look?