> If the above statement is true, you are saying that all the V Block Detroit Diesel engines had the Fork and Blade design of connecting rods that the EMC/EMD engines had? I always thought that the Detroit Diesel V Block engines had off-set cylinder arrangement, with the connecting rods side-by-side on the crankshaft journals. The EMC/EMD 567, 645, and 710 engines do NOT have off-set cylinders.

Since you haven't noticed, the post I was answering is about exterior appearance, not internal technicalities. They (EMD and Detroits) appear the same because Detroits are scaled-down versions of the same fundamental Winton supercharged uniflow design, in-line or V-configuration. Whether or not they use blade and fork rods or cylinder bank offsets has to do with scale, forces, strength of materials, and economies of construction. It is you who have read in that I've asserted the GM/Detroit engines use blade and fork rods, when I have not done so.