ALL ABOARD!... 'THE CASINO TRAIN TO VEGAS'
Las Vegas Company Announces Acquisition of 80 Room Train Hotel/Entertainment Complex; Unveils Plans for Casino
Train Rides in Las Vegas
Press Release: Sinclare Group, Inc.
August 31, 1999
LAS VEGAS, NV -- Sinclare Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNCG), announced today the acquisition of Primm Valley
Transit Authority, Inc. (PVT). PVT was founded last year by Larry Stockett to provide passenger/entertainment train
service from Primm, NV (near the Nevada/California state line) to Las Vegas, Henderson, Caliente, NV and Boulder
City.
PVT plans to contract with Amtrak to pull 12 high speed Talgo passenger cars over the existing Union Pacific railroad
line using Amtrak locomotives and engineers. PVT would provide all marketing, ticketing, food and beverage service,
train station operations. The train manufacturer, Talgo will provide train maintenance. Participating casino operators
will provide all gaming equipment, operators, supervisors, and surveillance personnel and equipment
According to Company President, Larry Stockett, PVT has proposed leasing the old Amtrak Station at the Plaza Hotel
in Las Vegas because it can be operational before the end of the year. It also has proposed to have train stops
at:
The time frame for adding each train stop will depend on obtaining
agreements with the land owners, necessary building and operating permits, and the construction periods necessary
to construct the train stop platforms. The company must also obtain permission of the railroad right of way owners
including the Union Pacific RR, the City of Henderson, and the State of Nevada.
The company has commenced discussions with several casinos and gaming companies and proposed to refurbish train
cars into casino cars and lease them to the casinos. Each casino would enter into an operating agreement with PVT
and seek their own approval from the Gaming Commission to offer gaming on their leased train cars. While gaming
has been allowed on moving vehicles such as river boats on the Mississippi river, Stockett believes his train rides,
if approved, would be the first to offer legalized gambling in the U.S.
PVT recently purchased selected assets of a railroad entertainment complex in WilkesBarre, PA., known as Market
Street Square Station. The assets include the right to replicate or relocate in Las Vegas the historic train station
built in 1868, and to relocate the train hotel/entertainment complex consisting of over 50 train cars including
the historic Flagler Car to Las Vegas. Forty of the train cars have been used as stationary hotel rooms with two
rooms per car, while others have been used as bar, lounge, dance, and dinner cars.
According to Stockett, the 40 hotel train cars purchased by Sinclare Group and the historic train station and additional
cars has an appraisal value of $6.9 million based upon a 1989 appraisal, which is currently being updated. The
Talgo 12 car high speed train set will be leased with a purchase option price of $8 million.
Sinclare Group, Inc., was a publicly traded shell corporation trading at $.01 per share prior to the acquisitions.
"When people realize that I have vended millions of dollars of assets into a penny stock shell corporation,
I believe the market reaction will cause the stock to appreciate rapidly,'' Stockett said. "Where else but
Las Vegas can you bet a penny a share on a start up company and have the potential to make a few bucks a share?''
added Stockett. It's hard for any stock to get much lower than a penny a share, so according to Stockett the only
direction his train business can take his stock is up. "Those who get in early on the stock will have the
best ride.''
Anyone who needs a hotel room in Vegas for the ``Millennium Celebration'' should make their reservations now. The
train rooms will normally rent for about $100 per night. Millennium week prices, however, will range from $500
per room for one bedroom train cars, to $2,000 for the six bed historic Flagler train car.
The Flagler Car was built in 1968 and is the sister car to the Flagler Car located in the Flagler Museum in West
Palm Beach, Florida. Henry Morrison Flagler was one of the wealthiest men in the world in the late 1800s. He was
the co-founder of Standard Oil of Ohio with John D. Rockefeller and built numerous hotels in Florida. He owned
the Florida East Coast Railway. Stockett recently visited the Flagler Museum to assure that any restoration of
the Flagler Car will include a historically accurate restoration and actual antiques, photos, dinner service, and
other train memorabilia which are authentic to the Florida East Coast Railway.
Stockett is a high tech computer pioneer who invented the first portable computer in the 1960s, published the first
software directories in the 1980s, opened the first paperless office at the Watergate in Washington, D.C., in 1978
and launched the first coast to coast fiber optics service in the 1980s. Stockett loves to be first at whatever
he does.
Photos of the train cars along with Stockett's credentials and his entire rail strategy can be seen on the Internet
at http://www.uscement
com. Reservations for Stockett's Millennium party can
be made by email addressed to larry@uscement.com. For more information contact the company at (702) 369-2126.
This press release contains certain forward looking statements, which are presented under the SEC ``Safe Harbor''
rules. There can be no assurances that such future plans or projections will be completed, or that if completed
will generate the results anticipated.
SOURCE: Sinclare Group, Inc.