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If the starter set is as you suggest 1 engine, 1 wagon and 1 cabbose, it is not normal to struggle with that on 3-5% grades. I do not know about the stone you mention. How un-even is the surface? All garden railway trains should be able to handle slightly uneven joints. But if there is very big dips it is possible the leading wheel is rising up and hitting the frame or cow catcher, and actually jamming rather than the loco just running out of traction. Does it stop and wheel slip in exactly the same place every time, and is that one of the dips between two high spots in the stone? If is is, try to put some strong cardboard or thin wood under the up-hill section so it is an constant up-hill grade, rather than big dips and hollows. If it goes Ok up that then your problem was the stone. Can you try running the train the other way around the oval and see if it gets any further up the hill before is stops - if it does that is also likely to be the stone, rather than engine. Just ideas to work out if the engine is at fault, of the patio. Glen.
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