We’ve already seen a 1938 black-and-white menu featuring Yosemite Valley on the front cover, but this one uses a dramatically different photograph. From the elevation, I assume it was taken from an airplane, which is unusual if not unique for front cover photos of Union Pacific menus, even those from the 1950s and 1960s.

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The back covers of the two menus are also a little different. The 1938 edition featured a full-page photo of San Francisco with the Oakland Bay Bridge in the background (which may also be an aerial photo). Today’s menu also has the Bay Bridge, but from a different angle, and the photo only fills the top half of the page. Both have four paragraphs of identical text about Yosemite Park.

Today’s menu was used aboard a special train for the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents, who were returning from a convention at Union Pacific’s resort in Sun Valley, Idaho. Most of the black-and-white menus I’ve seen were either used for special tour groups or in coffee shop cars, while I suspect menus in the Premiere and Winged Streamliner series were used for full diners aboard UP’s major trains.