Enter Now Winner Receives a $1,000 Amtrak Travel Voucher Contest Ends July 11, 2008

The "Picture Our Train" 2009 wall calendar photo contest has ended. Thank you for your interest.

Enter the Amtrak Picture Our Train 2009 Wall Calendar Photo Contest and your photograph could adorn the walls of train lovers everywhere.

Enter your photo of an Amtrak train (sporting the current logo) to have your image featured on the Amtrak 2009 wall calendar.

The First Prize Winner will receive a $1,000 Amtrak travel voucher and a photo credit on the calendar. The Second through Fifth Prize Winners will also receive Amtrak travel vouchers.

Contest ends July 11, 2008.

Official Rules

Contest
Best original color photograph featuring an Amtrak train with the current Amtrak logo (as seen here) and livery visible. Photographs of trains displaying Amtrak Cascades, Amtrak California, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and Acela Express livery are also eligible

How to Enter
Mail an 8 x 10 color photograph suitable to be enlarged to approximately 25 inches (horizontally) to:

2009 Calendar Contest
Amtrak
60 Massachusetts Ave, N.E.
Suite 4E-315
Washington, DC 20002

The photograph must be original and it, or any substantially similar one, may not have been published, nor have won, or be currently entered in any other contest. The entrant must own all rights to the photograph, including copyright. The photograph must be clearly labeled on the back with entrant's name, day and evening phone numbers, address, and e-mail address (if available). The front of the photograph may not include names, signatures, or other identifying marks.

Finalists will be contacted to submit their original transparency, slide, negative or digital image with a resolution of 300 dpi at approximately 25 inches across for use in producing the calendar with the winning photograph. Entries must be postmarked by July 11, 2008 and received by July 17, 2008. This contest ends July 11, 2008 at midnight EDT. No purchase necessary. Amtrak shall not be responsible for late, lost, incomplete, damaged, misdirected, illegible, or postage-due entries.

Eligibility
This contest is open to legal residents of the United States at the time of entry. A parent or guardian must enter on behalf of entrants under 18 years of age. Amtrak employees and their families are eligible; except Calendar Contest Review Panel Judges, and Amtrak Government Affairs and Corporate Communications employees and their immediate families are not eligible. Amtrak advertising agencies and their families are not eligible. Amtrak reserves the right to verify eligibility qualifications of any winner.

Conditions of Entry
By entering this contest, entrant agrees that if he or she is selected as a prizewinner, he or she will assign all rights to the photograph, including copyright, to Amtrak by executing an assignment agreement and Amtrak will own all rights to the photograph and may use it for any purpose. If a winning photograph includes a recognizable image of an individual, the winner must have that individual sign an Amtrak publicity release form. By entering this contest, entrant further agrees to these Official Rules.

Responsibility of Entrant and Liability Release
Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Entrant agrees to stay away from moving trains, tracks, structures, and railroad property. Entrant agrees to release Amtrak from all liability for injury, damage to or loss of personal property, and all other losses, and expressly agrees to bear all responsibility for and to assume the risk of all harm.

Prize
The first prize is a $1,000 travel voucher and the display of the winning photograph on the 2009 Amtrak Wall Calendar with photo credit. The second prize is a $500 travel voucher, the third prize is a $250 travel voucher, the fourth prize is a $150 travel voucher, and the fifth prize is a $100 travel voucher. Travel vouchers shall be valid for one year from date of issuance and all travel is subject to availability and to Amtrak's contract of carriage.

All taxes are the sole responsibility of the winners and finalists. No prize substitution or cash substitution is permitted, except by Amtrak for reason of unavailability in which a prize of equal or greater value will be awarded. Travel vouchers are transferable to another party. All prizes will be awarded.

Winner Selection
All prizewinners will be determined on or about July 18, 2008. All entries will be reviewed by the Amtrak 2009 Wall Calendar Review Panel, and finalists will be reviewed by the Judges' Panel. The judges' decisions are final. The prizewinners will be notified by telephone, mail and/or e-mail, if provided. All finalists will be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility, publicity release and copyright assignment, and return it properly executed within seven days of attempted notification as a condition of awarding the prize.

If prize notification is returned as undeliverable or the finalist fails to return the affidavit, release and license, as applicable, the winner will be disqualified and an alternate finalist will be selected. If, in Amtrak's opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of tampering with or alteration of any portion of the contest, Amtrak reserves the right to terminate the contest.

Winners List
For the names of the winners, after October 3, 2008, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: 2009 Calendar Contest Winner List, Amtrak, 60 Massachusetts Ave, N.E., Suite 4E-315, Washington, D.C., 20002. Requests received more than 60 days after the completion of the entry period will not be honored. Vermont residents need not send stamped envelope.

General
This contest is subject to all federal, state, and local laws. Void where prohibited by law. U.S. law governs this contest.