KCS Declares Dividends on 4% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock and Common Stock; Establishes Annual Meeting Date

January 26, 2017

Kansas City, Mo., January 26, 2017.  Kansas City Southern’s (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) Board of Directors on January 26, 2017 declared a regular dividend of $0.25 per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock.  The dividend is payable on April 4, 2017 to preferred stockholders of record at the close of business on March 13, 2017.

The Board of Directors also declared a regular dividend of $0.33 per share on the outstanding KCS common stock.  This dividend is payable on April 5, 2017, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on March 13, 2017.

The Board of Directors also set the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in Kansas City, Missouri on Thursday, May 4, 2017.  Stockholders of record of KCS’s common stock and KCS’s 4% non-cumulative preferred stock as of March 6, 2017, will be entitled to notice of the meeting and to vote at such meeting.

Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., KCS is a transportation holding company that has railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico and Panama.  Its primary U.S. holding is The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, serving the central and south central U.S.  Its international holdings include KCSM, serving northeastern and central Mexico and the port cities of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico and Veracruz, and a 50 percent interest in Panama Canal Railway Company, providing ocean-to-ocean freight and passenger service along the Panama Canal.  KCS' North American rail holdings and strategic alliances are primary components of a NAFTA Railway system, linking the commercial and industrial centers of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Contact: William H. Galligan, 816-983-1551