Historical Market Trends

The Historical Pricing Trends section is composed of two separate approaches to historic prices of wood crossties. The first approach is comprised of four graphs. The National graph is a blended trend line of the three Regions. These trend lines are composed of composite high-low data graciously provided by the Hardwood Market Report, Memphis TN, and because of that does not necessarily reflect actual market pricing. It does clearly illustrate trends occurring in the market place for green crossties as compared to Green 4/ 2A Red Oak lumber.  

The second approach, Nominal and Real Prices of Wood Products is also a series of four graphs. These figures represent nominal historical pricing data vs two different approaches to inflation adjusted (Real) data for the last 20 years, then compared with RTA member production, purchases and inventories for the same time period. These four graphs (also shown as a link below) should be self-explanatory and give business planners different representations of historic pricing trends. The raw data, once again, is provided to RTA compliments of the Hardwood Market Report and rescaled and adjusted for inflation by RTA's economists.

Nominal and Real Prices of Wood Products