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(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on January 12.)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern (KCS) will report financial results for Fourth Quarter and Year End 2003 on Thursday, January 29, 2004, prior to the opening of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

KCS management will discuss the Company’s fourth-quarter and year-end results at a meeting at JPMorgan, 277 Park Avenue (note address change), 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. The presentation will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST. A buffet lunch will be available at 12:30 p.m. Shareholders and interested parties not able to attend are invited to listen to the presentation via telephone by calling 800-955-1795 (U.S. and Canada) or 706-643-0096 (International). A replay of the presentation will be available for one week following and can be accessed by calling 800-642-1687 (U.S. and Canada) or 706-645-9291 (International), Conference ID: 4812370. The accompanying slides to the presentation will be available on the KCS website, www.kcsi.com, immediately prior to the telephone conference.

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

KCS is a transportation holding company with railroad investments in the United States, Mexico, and Panama. Its primary holding is The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), which serves customers in the central and south central regions of the U.S. KCS, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, has rail holdings and investments that are primary components of a NAFTA Railway system that links the commercial and industrial centers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.