I filed the hump under the train and now there is no hesitation...my little engine goes through very smoothly.  Thanks again to both of you.
Peter   

Thank you very much for your advice.  I returned the turn-out to the store (I decided to stick with just an oval track because of this issue).  I will go back to buy one and will try your advice.
Thanks again.
Peter

My 0-6-0 steam engine gets stuck in turn-outs at slow speed.  At high speed it makes it trough but not smoothly.  At the hobby store they tried it on different turn-outs with no better result!  Is this normal?