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(KCS issued the following news release on November 4.)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern’s (KCS)(NYSE:KSU) Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS 4% Non-Cumulative preferred stock. The dividend is payable on January 18, 2005, to preferred shareholders of record at the close of business on December 31, 2004.

KCS is comprised of, among others, The Kansas City Southern Railway (KCSR), and equity investments in Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (Grupo TFM), Southern Capital Corporation (Southern Capital), and Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC).